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Wartime Cooking Area C, above Quarry Bay [????- ]

Submitted by David on Fri, 06/25/2010 - 15:20

If you walk Stage 2 of the Wilson Trail, you'll see this set of wartime cooking stoves.

I finally got to visit them for the first time this week, and take a closer look. They follow the same layout as the area E we've seen before, but are in slightly better condition.

Apart from the regular blocks of 8 stoves (4 large, 4 small on each), there's one much larger stove which I hadn't noticed before. The surround is higher, and there are steps for the cook to climb up to reach the wok. You can see it in the middle foreground of this photo:

Amoy's International Settlement

Submitted by David on Mon, 05/24/2010 - 21:27

We're just back from a long weekend in Xiamen, or Amoy as it used to be called. It was opened to British trade in 1842 by the Treaty of Nanking, the same treaty that ceded Hong Kong to the British. And though Amoy's international settlement never matched Shanghai or Hong Kong for size, it beats them soundly in one respect - most of the old settlement is still standing today.